Canada finance minister: Stellantis investment ‘is coming’

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada, which has been renegotiating its support for a Stellantis-LGES electric vehicle battery plant, is confident that the investment is good for the country and “is coming,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday, hinting that a new deal may have been reached.

“We’re very confident in the value of the Stellantis investment which is coming,” Freeland told reporters in Ottawa , without elaborating.

(Reporting by Steve Scherer and Ismail Shakil in Ottawa; editing by Diane Craft)